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what are some are some things about cuban customs and religus beliefs.Also what are some cool things about there agriculture but its also ok if its not cool.PS do u think i should go there? thx for your time -- Sivad4991 02:04, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
i heard of a little boy in africa who had HIV and i would like to learn more but i forgot his name. all i remember was his first name started with "nk" i think and his last name was jonsun if thats how u spell it is mom died so he was adoptid by an orfanige for people with HIV he died at 11 and made a shpeach to thousands of people (not including the people watching on tv) if u find out let me know thanks -- Sivad4991 02:41, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thank you. You are da bomb lol thanks alot. -- Sivad4991 02:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
I had hoped to find this sc/ale and some information related to it. I found the 'description' and author on GOOGLE, but not the 'scale' w/the typical questions it would have for the 'inventory'.
I have a college (nursing) requirement to relate this to patient care and hoped to have more information.
It was authored by Hungelmann and others, and the JAREL acronym is the first letter of 'their' names..... (Hungelmann and others, 1966)and I didn't want to pay $19 for the info on another site.
Thank you. 70.89.75.126 03:13, 1 June 2007 (UTC)SF
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17:05, 1 June 2007 (UTC)I'm looking for information on camp followers of the British Army during the Peninsular War. Judithspencer 10:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
If a person is somewhat impatiently awaiting a statement of another person (e. g. the answer to a question or an offer), in what short phrase would this person express the expectation? Possibly "And?" or "Well?" ? -- KnightMove 11:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
How did the Romans respond to aging?
Try to imagine, if you will, walking through the streets of Rome in, say, 27BC, the year that Octavian became Augustus. One of the first thing you would notice is that most of the people in the streets would be young, perhaps no more than twenty-two years old on average. You have now entered a world where life expectancy at birth was short, much like parts of Africa and Asia today. Perhaps as many as a half of all those born at this time would not make it past the age of ten. The elderly, then, were a comparative rarity, and this inevitably had an important impact in determing the general perception of their role within Roman society.
Marcus Terentius Varro, writing towards the end of the first century BC, defined five stages of life: puertia, up to the age of fifteen; adulscentia, from fifteen to thirty; iuventus, from thirty to forty-five; seniores, from forty-five to sixty; and senectus, from sixty to death. Horace also divided life into a series of stages, though he concentrated on biological and social factors. For both, the adult stage was the prime of life, after which comes decline. The perceptions of women were quite different, for they were reckoned to have entered adulthood at the time of marriage, whereas their male siblings may still only have been in the 'adolescent' stage. In general, the female life-cycle was determined by patterns of reproduction, 'old-age' coming with the onset of the menopause.
Men of a certain class could expect to play an active part in public affairs, at least until the age of sixty, after which they were able to step down, free from the duty of attending the Senate or their local council. For these people there was the expression sexagenarious de ponte-sixty and over the bridge, which in the strictest sense simply meant that they were no longer under an obligation to vote. Retirement, no matter how comfortable, brought much the same concerns as it still does today, a fear of social marginalisation being uppermost. Cicero wrote a dialogue while he himself was in his sixties, giving shape to this preoccupation. However, most free men who made it through the middle years had quite diffrent preoccupations. For those who had no resources or family to look after them the outlook was grim indeed. A few brief lines of verse in the Palatine Anthology captures something of their sad fate;
Worn by age and poverty, no one stretching out his hand to relieve my misery, on my tottering legs I went slowly to my grave, scarce able to reach the end of my wretched life. In my case the law of death was reversed, for I did not die first to be buried, but I died after my funeral.
Men of this class, the Roman proletariat, would literally work until they dropped. For women without family or support the outlook, if anything, was even grimmer. For some the only prospect of survival was prostitution, and both Horace and Juvenal give graphic descriptions of decaying bodies and sagging faces caked with cosmetics. Some other Roman writers liken the techniques used in brothels to make elderly prostitutes presentable to those used by undertakers in preparing a corpse. Old women are also satirised in comic literature as drunks, brothel keepers or witches. In the Roman world the old were wise and revered if they were wealthy. If not, they stared into the abyss. Some things really do not change. Clio the Muse 00:03, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
WOW!!! Thanks, guys-you are all so cool. Who would believe this is the Wikipedia reference desk????? I feel as if I have travelled back in time and walked into Plato's Academy!!!!
Can a small firm still gain some economies of scale? If so, which ones and how?
I have always wondered why men in old pictures (around 1900, usually older) have their hands into their vests or jackets etc. (See Image:PinkertonLincolnMcClernand.jpg as an example), and what this means. Have asked people who should have known this, but they can't answer. Grinder0-0 14:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Is child pornography illegal only when the child didn't consent to sexual acts? Or is child pornography illegal whether or not the child consented? If the child consented, can the material still be published on the internet, such as the child's own MySpace profile, website, etc.?-- Ed ¿Cómo estás? 20:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
How did finger snapping and poetry become related? Is there a history to it? Is it used frequently?-- Ed ¿Cómo estás? 20:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Which Texas state universities have a College for Film & Television
My reason for asking is because I want to learn about filming a television series or a movie.
If you sort the table at List of tallest buildings in the United States by date, it divides into two groups: buildings that were built in the early 1930s, and buildings that were built after 1969. Why is this? -- Carnildo 22:40, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
How Ancient Rome was able to establish its dominance throughout the Mediterranean?
This is not for homework, I made the question up so please answer it in details. thank you.
How the Pax Romana helped to create a sense of stability and continuity in ancient times?
How did the Cultural, Social, Political, Economic and Military Factors effect the characteristics of Rome in its rise and at its height of power, factors contributing to Rome's decline and events marking the fall of Rome?
I understand that if you are believed to be possessed by demons, the Church may try and perform an exorcism on you. But what happens if the opposite is true? How would a priest react if you sincerely believed yourself to be Christ returned?
I know that they would lash you to a stake and set you on fire 500 years ago, but what would happen today? Some sort of reverse exorcism? Excommunication? 211.30.58.28 23:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Wow, the Left Behind books are being substituted for actual Christian theology. The belief that the believers will be raptured up before the Tribulation is referred to as Premillenialism and is a distinct strain of Christian thinking, but is by no means believed in by all of them. It is a fairly common belief in the United States among evangelical Christians, but less common in the rest of the world. Most mainstream Christian theolgians would fall into the preterist school when it came to interpreting the Book of Revelation. ObiterDicta ( pleadings • errata • appeals ) 00:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Please look over the page on the Second Coming, 211.30. In mainstream Christianity there would be no mistake or misapprehension, because the Second Coming is conceived as something quite different from the first, with Christ returning in triumph to judge the living and the dead. You may also be interested in the page on the List of people who have claimed to be Jesus Christ. For a possible reaction towards a reappearance of Christ as a man, in his first manifestation, in other words, I think you could do no better than read The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, particularly the section headed The Grand Inquisitor. Clio the Muse 01:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
There's a nice poem on this theme. It's a fictional account of Jewish people rejecting the (authentic) Jewish Messiah. It can be seen at ( [3]) but needs a lot of understanding of Jewish terminology. The gist is that we're all so used to arguing and religious one-upmanship that for daft, trivial reasons we'd even reject the Messiah if he came... because we're not deserving. The moral is that we need to work on our personalities in order to deserve Messiah's arrival. The poem's such a success because it holds more than a grain of truth, sadly. -- Dweller 07:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I like to know how the Ancient Greeks and Romans; Middle Ages and Ancient Egypt used to wear their clothing and is there site where I can see the pictures in real-life, not the people, the clothing. I asked this question because I'm making a documentary film on the ancient civilization. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.132.56 ( talk • contribs)
Why the Pantheon is considered one of the most architecturally influential buildings in the Western world? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.132.56 ( talk • contribs)
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what are some are some things about cuban customs and religus beliefs.Also what are some cool things about there agriculture but its also ok if its not cool.PS do u think i should go there? thx for your time -- Sivad4991 02:04, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
i heard of a little boy in africa who had HIV and i would like to learn more but i forgot his name. all i remember was his first name started with "nk" i think and his last name was jonsun if thats how u spell it is mom died so he was adoptid by an orfanige for people with HIV he died at 11 and made a shpeach to thousands of people (not including the people watching on tv) if u find out let me know thanks -- Sivad4991 02:41, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
thank you. You are da bomb lol thanks alot. -- Sivad4991 02:57, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
I had hoped to find this sc/ale and some information related to it. I found the 'description' and author on GOOGLE, but not the 'scale' w/the typical questions it would have for the 'inventory'.
I have a college (nursing) requirement to relate this to patient care and hoped to have more information.
It was authored by Hungelmann and others, and the JAREL acronym is the first letter of 'their' names..... (Hungelmann and others, 1966)and I didn't want to pay $19 for the info on another site.
Thank you. 70.89.75.126 03:13, 1 June 2007 (UTC)SF
{{
cite conference}}
: |editor=
has generic name (
help); Unknown parameter |coauthors=
ignored (|author=
suggested) (
help) (ISBN 978-0397547364) --
Lambiam
Talk
17:05, 1 June 2007 (UTC)I'm looking for information on camp followers of the British Army during the Peninsular War. Judithspencer 10:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
If a person is somewhat impatiently awaiting a statement of another person (e. g. the answer to a question or an offer), in what short phrase would this person express the expectation? Possibly "And?" or "Well?" ? -- KnightMove 11:09, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
How did the Romans respond to aging?
Try to imagine, if you will, walking through the streets of Rome in, say, 27BC, the year that Octavian became Augustus. One of the first thing you would notice is that most of the people in the streets would be young, perhaps no more than twenty-two years old on average. You have now entered a world where life expectancy at birth was short, much like parts of Africa and Asia today. Perhaps as many as a half of all those born at this time would not make it past the age of ten. The elderly, then, were a comparative rarity, and this inevitably had an important impact in determing the general perception of their role within Roman society.
Marcus Terentius Varro, writing towards the end of the first century BC, defined five stages of life: puertia, up to the age of fifteen; adulscentia, from fifteen to thirty; iuventus, from thirty to forty-five; seniores, from forty-five to sixty; and senectus, from sixty to death. Horace also divided life into a series of stages, though he concentrated on biological and social factors. For both, the adult stage was the prime of life, after which comes decline. The perceptions of women were quite different, for they were reckoned to have entered adulthood at the time of marriage, whereas their male siblings may still only have been in the 'adolescent' stage. In general, the female life-cycle was determined by patterns of reproduction, 'old-age' coming with the onset of the menopause.
Men of a certain class could expect to play an active part in public affairs, at least until the age of sixty, after which they were able to step down, free from the duty of attending the Senate or their local council. For these people there was the expression sexagenarious de ponte-sixty and over the bridge, which in the strictest sense simply meant that they were no longer under an obligation to vote. Retirement, no matter how comfortable, brought much the same concerns as it still does today, a fear of social marginalisation being uppermost. Cicero wrote a dialogue while he himself was in his sixties, giving shape to this preoccupation. However, most free men who made it through the middle years had quite diffrent preoccupations. For those who had no resources or family to look after them the outlook was grim indeed. A few brief lines of verse in the Palatine Anthology captures something of their sad fate;
Worn by age and poverty, no one stretching out his hand to relieve my misery, on my tottering legs I went slowly to my grave, scarce able to reach the end of my wretched life. In my case the law of death was reversed, for I did not die first to be buried, but I died after my funeral.
Men of this class, the Roman proletariat, would literally work until they dropped. For women without family or support the outlook, if anything, was even grimmer. For some the only prospect of survival was prostitution, and both Horace and Juvenal give graphic descriptions of decaying bodies and sagging faces caked with cosmetics. Some other Roman writers liken the techniques used in brothels to make elderly prostitutes presentable to those used by undertakers in preparing a corpse. Old women are also satirised in comic literature as drunks, brothel keepers or witches. In the Roman world the old were wise and revered if they were wealthy. If not, they stared into the abyss. Some things really do not change. Clio the Muse 00:03, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
WOW!!! Thanks, guys-you are all so cool. Who would believe this is the Wikipedia reference desk????? I feel as if I have travelled back in time and walked into Plato's Academy!!!!
Can a small firm still gain some economies of scale? If so, which ones and how?
I have always wondered why men in old pictures (around 1900, usually older) have their hands into their vests or jackets etc. (See Image:PinkertonLincolnMcClernand.jpg as an example), and what this means. Have asked people who should have known this, but they can't answer. Grinder0-0 14:56, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Is child pornography illegal only when the child didn't consent to sexual acts? Or is child pornography illegal whether or not the child consented? If the child consented, can the material still be published on the internet, such as the child's own MySpace profile, website, etc.?-- Ed ¿Cómo estás? 20:39, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
How did finger snapping and poetry become related? Is there a history to it? Is it used frequently?-- Ed ¿Cómo estás? 20:44, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Which Texas state universities have a College for Film & Television
My reason for asking is because I want to learn about filming a television series or a movie.
If you sort the table at List of tallest buildings in the United States by date, it divides into two groups: buildings that were built in the early 1930s, and buildings that were built after 1969. Why is this? -- Carnildo 22:40, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
How Ancient Rome was able to establish its dominance throughout the Mediterranean?
This is not for homework, I made the question up so please answer it in details. thank you.
How the Pax Romana helped to create a sense of stability and continuity in ancient times?
How did the Cultural, Social, Political, Economic and Military Factors effect the characteristics of Rome in its rise and at its height of power, factors contributing to Rome's decline and events marking the fall of Rome?
I understand that if you are believed to be possessed by demons, the Church may try and perform an exorcism on you. But what happens if the opposite is true? How would a priest react if you sincerely believed yourself to be Christ returned?
I know that they would lash you to a stake and set you on fire 500 years ago, but what would happen today? Some sort of reverse exorcism? Excommunication? 211.30.58.28 23:26, 1 June 2007 (UTC)
Wow, the Left Behind books are being substituted for actual Christian theology. The belief that the believers will be raptured up before the Tribulation is referred to as Premillenialism and is a distinct strain of Christian thinking, but is by no means believed in by all of them. It is a fairly common belief in the United States among evangelical Christians, but less common in the rest of the world. Most mainstream Christian theolgians would fall into the preterist school when it came to interpreting the Book of Revelation. ObiterDicta ( pleadings • errata • appeals ) 00:54, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
Please look over the page on the Second Coming, 211.30. In mainstream Christianity there would be no mistake or misapprehension, because the Second Coming is conceived as something quite different from the first, with Christ returning in triumph to judge the living and the dead. You may also be interested in the page on the List of people who have claimed to be Jesus Christ. For a possible reaction towards a reappearance of Christ as a man, in his first manifestation, in other words, I think you could do no better than read The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky, particularly the section headed The Grand Inquisitor. Clio the Muse 01:09, 2 June 2007 (UTC)
There's a nice poem on this theme. It's a fictional account of Jewish people rejecting the (authentic) Jewish Messiah. It can be seen at ( [3]) but needs a lot of understanding of Jewish terminology. The gist is that we're all so used to arguing and religious one-upmanship that for daft, trivial reasons we'd even reject the Messiah if he came... because we're not deserving. The moral is that we need to work on our personalities in order to deserve Messiah's arrival. The poem's such a success because it holds more than a grain of truth, sadly. -- Dweller 07:21, 3 June 2007 (UTC)
Hi there, I like to know how the Ancient Greeks and Romans; Middle Ages and Ancient Egypt used to wear their clothing and is there site where I can see the pictures in real-life, not the people, the clothing. I asked this question because I'm making a documentary film on the ancient civilization. —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.132.56 ( talk • contribs)
Why the Pantheon is considered one of the most architecturally influential buildings in the Western world? —Preceding unsigned comment added by 76.64.132.56 ( talk • contribs)